Those were the words that a senior F.B.I. agent texted in August 2016 to a colleague who was worried that Mr. Trump would win the election. For the president, that text seemed to validate his claim of a “deep state” conspiracy out to get him.

But the same inspector general report also undercut Mr. Trump’s narrative. Whatever the agent, Peter Strzok, meant, the F.B.I. did not “stop” Mr. Trump, nor did the inspector general find evidence it tried. To the extent that the F.B.I. and its director at the time, James B. Comey, did anything wrong in 2016, according to the report, it was to the disadvantage of Mr. Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Yeah, yeah. This will not satisfy either side. Not to suggest I have any idea what would.

Today’s POTUS performance was breathtaking in the sheer number of provable falsehoods, intentional mischaracterizations and outright lies uttered. Clearly someone feels emboldened. Will GOP leaders continue to shrug this off? Bury their head in the sand?"

You know, MM, the sad thing is nobody even thinks to ask your very question: "What provable falsehoods? List them please."

I see that all the time from my prog friends lately. They just make the most sweeping of derogatory statements and are shocked if anyone asks them "name two...". But these are private citizens. For a media star to get away with it just pisses me off."

Other commentators were all but unanimous in saying that our
problem with these internet giants is their control of our personal
data. But this diagnosis is fundamentally mistaken. And just as
in medicine misdiagnosis matters: misunderstanding the disease
means choosing the wrong treatment that harms rather than helps.
It is not your data that Google and Facebook are exploiting: it is
your
attention.
It is your eyes, glued to the screen, that make them
all the money; it is because when we want to search for something,
or make contact with friends and find out what’s going on,
billions
of us turn to these sites. And it is this overwhelming dominance
that is so powerful.

Just woke up and on regular FOX saw a blurb saying something like Paul Ryan has quit trying to garner 218 Votes for some Amnesty Bill because Trump has said he will not sign it. Googling gets me to the Washington Examiner story:

President Trump seemed to undercut House GOP leaders’ new immigration bill Friday, suggesting in an interview that he “certainly wouldn’t sign” it if it reached his desk.

Mr. Trump, interviewed on the “Fox & Friends” morning program, was asked about the two bills GOP leaders will put up for votes next week. One is an enforcement-focused bill by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, while the other is a compromise overseen by the party leaders, which combines an amnesty for some illegal immigrants with major changes to enforcement and pathways for legal immigration.

“I’m looking at both of them. I certainly wouldn’t sign the more moderate one,” Mr. Trump said.

That’s a surprise because House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said this week that the bill was written “hand-in-glove” with the administration specifically to meet Mr. Trump’s four pillars for immigration.

OL:
Believe it or not, I thought the same thing wrt Harry Reid.
This is their playbook.It worked for Reid and most important, Reid suffered no consequences except from an exercise machine.
That is why I agree with Iggy.
Our freedoms are being taken from us.
Living off the grid is becoming very appealing. Unless you suffer severe consequences as a result of bad actions others will be deterred.
Hillary has yet to suffer only one consequenceLosing the election.
Now our only hope for justice wrt her and Bill is the Clinton Foundation investigation.

OL to add to that, REID said that he had recieved information from sources that ROMNEY hadn't paid taxes for 10 years.
The FULL COMMIE FUKWITS on TEEEEVEEEEE never had the brains, balls or decency, to ask him......

Rush doing a nice job today illustrating, as Levin did last night, that each and every Agent in this IG Report was Pro-Hillary and Anti-Trump. Every single one, yet somehow the FBI and Wray and Schumer and all the rest continue to tell us there was no "Political bias." Since that is the case, when Jury's are finally empaneled it should make no difference if every single Juror is a card carrying Republican wearing a MAGA cap, since there apparently is no such thing in America as "Political Bias."

When i was in Patagonia AZ last June (one year ago tomorrow), i went down to Nogales (8 miles closer to the border by road.

I took the time to see for myself how American progressives are flouting US laws on the border despite the high cost rural Americans in the region are paying for this "good work".

There was a humanitarian effort by a group of Arizona Quakery types going on there.

The group had people operating at remote sites along both sides of the border.

They were on the Mexico side to "triage survivors" of the coyote-led run for the border. Food, water, medical attention, maps, translators etc to assist the jumpers with their entry.

The day I was there was a Saturday or "entry day."

A local Patagonia museum owner had talked about how this show worked over lunch one day where i was staying. Small town. He would greet visitors when one of us pulled up at the store next to his museum. He had quite a volunteer network going all over the US. So i knew when to go on this little fact finding journey during my week long doctor/lab visit there.

I sat in my air conditioned vehicle observing the activities on the US side where the Quakeries were waiting outside of Nogales, about a mile from the remote entry point.

For those few hours I was there, I counted 83 jumpers... more than half (48) were males over the age of what looked like 18; the rest were young women who didn't seem attached to any of the men coming across. No kids. Zip. It's too rigorous a journey on foot for anybody under the age of 12.

An interesting aspect were the number of vehicles waiting for the jumpers.

The delight on the faces of the jumpers as they recognized their "ride" was pretty evident to me that this was an organized deal.

Family and/or friends were waiting to whisk the jumpers away to Tucson, Phoenix etc.

They sure as hell weren't staying in Nogales based on the road we were near heading north away from that god forsaken burg.

As a service to those who get here in the afternoons, I am going to repost the links to all 3 parts of President Trump's impromptu news conference on the White House lawn this morning.

The first two links are when he decided to just stroll out and appear on Fox and Friends. The third is from the short press conference he gave to all of the rest of the reporters after he was done with Fox. Total time was around 45 minutes. NO NOTES.

The foundation scheme was cover for Hill-Billy influence on Florida muckedty mucks to sell the mineral rights under lands there rich in phosphate.

Who has a big stake in the phosphate market worldwide?

That'd be the King of Morocco!

Hildo was going to line up a $12 million payday for the Crime Family Foundation and the King of Morocco would have been handed "the corner" on the global phosphate market.

Of course, to think Hill-Billy-Howdy get checks from the CFF is folly.

From the article:

"The most obvious problem with it is that money from the Clinton Foundation never went into Hillary or Bill Clinton’s private bank accounts. As PolitiFact has pointed out, neither Clinton draws any form of personal financial compensation from their work with the foundation. It’s pretty amazing just how many stories in which Trump has alleged otherwise don’t bother to point out what seems to be a pretty vital fact.

The second big problem with the claim that Clinton traded government favors for personal enrichment is that she was not secretary of state at the time of the scheduled gala in Morocco. (The gala was planned for May 2015 — more than two years after Clinton left the State Department.) Trump has alleged a “pay-to-play” scheme in which Clinton transactionally rewards foundation donors with government favors, but she was not actually in a position of authority at the time of the donation. True, she was widely expected to run for president soon, but it was certainly far from a guarantee that she’d win."

If the Clinton Foundation doesn't put money in their "private bank accounts," that proves nothinig.

I would bet cash money that every single expense of the Clintons, from air travel and entertainment to probably Hillary's hairdresser and their mortgage payments, is paid for as an expense out of the Foundation. Plus how much goes in Chelsea's bank account?

The only way to lay this charge to rest is an open and public audit of the Clinton Foundation books, including all expenses, donations, donations to other non-profits, etc.

Until I see that audit, I will continue to believe that they derive financial benefit from the Foundation and use it to collect bribes from foreign countries, important political people, and celebrities.

The Democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the Border with their horrible and cruel legislative agenda. Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain, and go to Merit Based Immigration. Go for it! WIN!

Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!
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This should get some panties in a wad! The guy is absolutely fearless. (I think he is trying to bait someone, but that is only my supposition.)

I’ll be on the road for several more days limited to my IPhone. I haven’t had a chance to read the IG report. Only thing I know about it is what I’m reading here and seeing on Twitter.

Couple of points. Prior to the release of the report opinions were based on snippets of info and a lot of speculation, Now that the report is out everything documented in the report is a concrete fact. The reaction to those facts by enemies of Trump says a lot. The blatant lying, misrepresentation, spin etc by the Progtards is a pretty clear signal the facts are not in their favor.

The biggest bombshell is the now established fact that under Obama the FBI was blatantly biased and engaging in KGB/Gestapo like behavior. The ongoing narrative war surrounding that key fact will be used to set the stage for the next IG report on FISA abuse and the spying on Trump. Trump and his team have to convince the large majority of Americans with functional brains and integrity that pretty much everything that happened under Obama was criminally corrupt. The facts documented in both the first and second IG report will help Trump win that narrative war.

I can see now why the FBI didn't find any "criminal intent" involved with Hillary's private email server--apparently everybody who was anybody in Obama's administration had one of their own. Including Comey himself. They were always going to exonerate her for that reason alone.

And it wouldn't surprise me if Bush's people did, too. Probably everybody in the Federal government's been conducting certain sensitive business on private accounts since Al Gore invented email.

Also, I would bet real money that someone somewhere has those 33,000 emails that she destroyed. Though, whether they ever come to light to the general public is another matter. Depends on who's got them. The Pakistanis probably. And Russia. If the Saudis have them, then I suspect Trump's people now do too. Ditto the Israelis.

When you get to your hotel this evening, do take a look at the press conference President Trump did on the lawn this morning. The three links are all in one post here and it should give you some fine evening entertainment.

I think his hair isin't as poofy on top, which is a bit more flattering.

When I was looking at that video the Norks put out, when I got to the part where the President appeared, it struck me how GOLDEN he looked compared to all of the dark-haired Koreans. I think they are fascinated with him. LOL!

Hey derwill, what with all the RUSSIAN HACKING and SUCH, you'd think the SMARTEST WOMAN EVAH, would be more careful, with OUR COUNTRIES CLASSIFIED info.
But, no biggie, it's in the ALL GONE MACHINE NOW.
If everyone in the federal government was a rapist, would that be ok too??? If the FEDERAL GOVT handed you a subpoena for your e-mails, would it be OK, if you said. "Ok, you can have them all, except for the 33,000 that I've decided you can't have". How would that work out for you? This is why I've said a WAR IS COMING. You can't brazenly attempt to COUP D'ETAT, DESTROY RECORDS, LIE, CHEAT AND STEAL vs THE PEOPLE and not get the populace angry.
ROMANIA. The CEAUCESCU'S RODHAM first.

I’ve had to beat 17 very talented people including the Bush Dynasty, then I had to beat the Clinton Dynasty, and now I have to beat a phony Witch Hunt and all of the dishonest people covered in the IG Report...and never forget the Fake News Media. It never ends!

Rush in Hour 2 commenting on Trump's comments earlier today saying Trump undercut Ryan's Bill because it is Amnesty and doesn't close the Border. Rush reiterates the take that this is the last gasp of exiting Repub's to try to get this shoved thru for K-Street, The Chamber of Commerce, and the rest of the usual suspects.

Rush getting set to play soundbites of Trump's comments that Miss M linked for us at 01:22.

Rush commenting again on why Strzok's bombshell statement that "we'll stop Trump from winning" was not released to Congress when they released the rest of the exchange months back, and takes a moment to do some quality hammering of Shep Smith.

I remember when Karl Rove's private server sent all those State Dept e-mails to some PERV, that was married to a staffer of his. GOOD TIMES!!
And when he got subpoenad, he just deleted whatever HE CHOSE. IT'S ALL GOOD.

We will see what the next report brings.
So far it is very understandable to everyday people the 2 systems of justice.
Hillary getting a pass will not go down well for Independents and President Trump’s loyal voters.
They didn’t yell”Lock Her Up” for nothing

I have peridot, blue topaz and pink and yellow, and citrine and amethyst and many more... I love semi precious stones. Also have rubies and sapphires and other precious stones.. not as many (or as big), but yes I am a jewelry hound. HSN, Helzberg and other stores did me a big favor by designing the ugliest of settings nowadays, so I don't buy much any more! Gack!

Clarice, with just a couple of exceptions, everyone in our crew here at JOM are lucid, intelligent, mostly logical and able to process truth from fiction.
COMEY IS NOT. Comey seems to be unable to speak a coherant sentence that isn't written down. He is a terrible liar. When he speaks in circular riddles he sounds like the he's trying to baffle people with bullshit. It's what they call..... A TELL.
He seems wimpish beyond words. What do you think your female friends who aren't FULL COMMIE think about him???

Sorry inquilab means revolution or uprising, most everything else I'm sure of, the fakir of waziristan was a character who held the Brits at bay for about 30 years, it was ghailanis father who was a quadi in pre war baghdad

Rush doing a nice job in Hour 3 reading the text messages between Agent 1 and Agent 5 and showing how the texts between the two reveal that they did indeed use the FBI to try to get Hillary elected but they concluded sadly on the day after the Election that the FBI's efforts were unsuccessful because Trump supporters were Pieces of s**t too stupid to be swayed by their FBI schemes. There really is no other way to read that.

His approval ratings within his own party are high. If you look today, 87 percent of Republicans give him a positive approval rating. What’s that mean? At this point in his presidency, Barack Obama had a 79 percent rating among Democrats. The only president at this point in time in the presidency to outscore Donald Trump was George W. Bush at 95 percent, and of course, by this point in time, we had launched the war in Iraq. Ronald Reagan wasn’t this high. Jack Kennedy wasn’t this high. The GOP is the party of Trump.

I think Comey is very neurotic..and probably is having a breakdown as his false image of himself as an ethical white hat crumbles. The federalist article I linked argues persuasively that he reopened the email investigation because he was certain she'd win and wanted to protect her against claims by livid Trumpists that the rigged game was rigged.

Back from the Open. Left Elliott there to do his thing. Don't worry, I'll pick him up when he gets back Lake Agawan on the shuttle.

Tough walking on the new knee especially the hilly terrain. Plus my back started to give out, which happens when your leg gets tired and you start to compensate. Plus I have my version of Chicken Satay ready for the grill. Need to start on my peanut sauce.

After reading a lot of comments on the IG report, including Mollie Heminways at the Daily Signal, I am sure this is the soft landing but not the only landing to come. There is a lot of red meat in there but I think the succeeding reports will build on this one and be more damning. Mollie is right, this is not protectionism but corrertionism. IOW's, it is the IG responsibility to point out policy or process defects so management can address them. He isn't the FBI or a prosecutor but a reporter of an audit. He is more QA/QC than anything.